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Details on future accelerators AMD Radeon HD 7000 series in the early leaked version of the driver Catalyst 11.7. AMD last month revealed details of the architecture of its future graphics processors, which will apply in the next series of accelerators Radeon HD 7000, while the well-known under the code name Southern Islands.

Judging by the leaked data, AMD in the next generation of its graphics cards and dual-chip is going to present the flagship accelerator, code-named New Zealand, which will be called Radeon HD 7990 and will replace the Radeon HD 6990 market.

Single-chip high-end graphics cards are the code names Tahiti XT and Tahiti Pro, and the market will be known respectively as the Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon HD 7950, replacing the Radeon HD 6970/6950 solutions based on the Antilles.

Accelerators average Thames XT (HD 7870) and Thames Pro (HD 7850), as well as indicate their names, will replace the HD 6850/6870 on the basis of Barts. Thames LE (HD 7790) will be the replacement for Barts LE (HD 6790).

Finally, considerable interest is the middle card / entry level. The fact that, as reported, the video card Radeon HD 7670/7570 (based on the chip, code-named Lombok), the technology to replace Radeon HD 6670/6650 (chip Turks), will rely on relatively old, although well proven in graphics card series Radeon HD 6900 architecture, VLIW-4D.

Details regarding the frequency and number of computing units will be announced in the coming months: according to rumors, the company will introduce new cards in the last quarter of the year. Some data indicate that even in September as a possible release date. It would be very interesting: in this case, AMD would offer their fans a whole new platform once the 28-nm graphics card Radeon HD 7000 and the 32-nm processors FX. A very solid start. Perhaps it is the desire to provide products at the same time, and caused AMD to delay the output processor architecture Bulldozer.

NVIDIA is also working on a full swing with new graphics cards with the architecture of Kepler. The yield of these cards are rumored to also take place in the last quarter of the year. Well, the Holiday Season on the market graphics cards is expected to be very hot.

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